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If the weather holds and that rain on fri/sat doesn't creep into the next day, sunday will be a spectacular morning.

Good luck everyone!

Few times/week but some of these will be in the basement and it's only 14 yards. I think it's valuable, but if I had a target in the backyard I could legally shoot I would be out there daily in the run up to hunting season. There are some public wetlands half a mile from my house that nobody ever uses and I may start dragging a target and my bow out there for some stuff when I don't want to visit the range.

I'm not ready. 1) No hunting license (rectifying tonight) 2) Haven't re-zeroed my ever-shifting peep with my hunting arrows (will this week) 3) Haven't cleaned my hunting gear, let dry, then Sawyered it (will this week) My shooting volume is massively lower than last year. However, what shooting I have done shows me back up to nearly top-form in just a few sessions. I'm grouping well and the bow is pulling back well. I've done zero scouting and hung no cameras, but this year I have access to what I believe is a spectacular property, and my friend who lives there already has identified the good spots (plus he doesn't bow-hunt!). There are some ladder stands all setup, but the drive is a monster (over an hour each way).

There is probably something to this. I absolutely believe that a high quality broadhead made out of steel could be made at a (small) margin for a couple bucks/head. This is simple manufacturing of a simple product. But, we tend to go through so few of these that spending a few extra bucks to know you're not getting some factory defect crap may be worth it.

We put one up yesterday. Managed to combine hot weather with waiting until a week out so that the area can get soaked with chinese metal fabrication stank and something new for the deer to be spooked by, lol

I won't buy these due to a warning in the listing: If I can't shoot at people what good are they?

You mean broad-heads don't have to cost $40 for 3? I get a kick out of the margin on some things we still buy. Eyeglass frames are the biggest offenders of course. I've been using Torid SS from walmart for about $13 for three but cheaper is always better.

I shoot these--also can buy same ones at field and stream and they are great.

My first day hunting two years ago as a newb with no mentor I managed to walk to within 25 yards of a doe eating. I had a good breeze in front of me plus some hardwoods I was using to block my approach. I had a perfect broadside shot on this unassuming doe and blew it, arrow over its back. In the couple of dozen times trying since with a bow all I've ever been reward with were hissing deer. It is outrageously difficult. Others reading this thread should not take the above responses to mean it is easy. I may try it again this year but with a crossbow at least and preferably a gun.

Third arrow ever shot by my daughter. First two were at 20, so this was her first at 30 yards. This is an accurate crossbow!

The two bucks I've gotten were, I believe, 2.5 years old. But I'll say the same I always do: I hunt public land and shot opportunities at the spot I got of any kind are few and far between. I can go many times without even seeing a single deer, so I don't have the luxury to pick and choose. Although mine were bucks I'm perfectly content with a doe. I am in this for the primal aspect and the food.

Good cars but I'm not saying this to troll as I have had a few subarus in the family, but I can't stand subaru drivers. I think it isn't the car but the sort of person attracted to subarus. They tend to drive very slowly compared to other drivers. Exceptions of course are the ricers in their WRX. This is a generality. I'm sure all subaru drivers in this thread are upstanding, fantastic people and the above doesn't apply to them.

My range has a broadhead pit with some layered foam. I won't be bothering with them this year. I use the cheap broadheads from Walmart (mechanical) and cannot discern them hitting any differently than my field tips, so I am content they hit where they need to. I will confirm that on the crossbow as that is new. As mentioned, mechanicals: I designate one of my mechanicals a practice tip and I wrap it with twine and glue so that it won't open in the target, so I can repeat the shot. I have tested out to 50 yards and if I had to bet my life on it, maybe it hits a bit lower (the wrapped twine head is less aerodynamic, so this would be expected), but I trust they hit close enough that I don't bother adjusting anything. Super-gluing one closed would work well, too. I do weigh my broadheads and use a collar if necessary to match weights across the board. Truly they are all so close I'm not sure I ever have needed a collar.

$8 at amazon looks decent!

But you can definitely get sick of the rain! I won't say never, and in fact I have tried some still hunting including last year in heavy rain, but only because it was early season and pretty warm out. Don't have a clue why I thought I could still hunt with a bow. Anyway, when I'm in my warm bed and it's raining out and dark it requires an almost super human effort to get out of bed and know that in a short while I'll be hiking out in that nasty stuff.

I bought a tube, but I can't do it again. it's really too expensive. It has about 50 drops in the entire thing for $12 I haven't seen any competitive products, though.

Yesterday I finally saw some leaves on the ground. We need an early frost to get fall kicked off. At this rate it will still be like a jungle in most of the woods come Oct 1!

Thanks, all. The bow came with wax that has silicone in it. Looked like a smaller tube of the same stuff I put on my bow string. It says it should be applied to strings but also to the rail. Seems kind of waxy for that. Maybe I should find some rail lube.

It's absurd. Freezing august and then this. I was going to do camping this weekend but I have no interest in sweating while camping. I like AC too much, so cancelling it. I'll be out opening day and each weekend thereafter except if it's raining. Sitting in a tree stand when it's raining is too miserable to bother with.

Xbow wants a re-wax every ten shots. 1) where is all the wax going between these few shots? 2) lubing the rail and waxing the string seems straight except what do you do with the string that wraps the pulleys? On my compound I have sometimes used overpriced (and I won't buy again) venom lube for the string that wraps the pulleys buy I won't be doing that here

Now I gotta get some noct

Unfortunately I see no value at all to those bluetooth nocks. Their range in field is about 150 yards in their faq and for whatever reason they also say they don't condone the use of their products to track game. There is a company that has come out with a $600 radio transmitter that afixes to your arrow and you get a receiving unit but it's hellaciously oversized. It uses a barb to hook onto the deer once you hit it. Eventually somebody will come out with a transfer device and a nice range and it will make finding downed deer much better.

Why not? You can buy your milk, your sugar, a hunting blind, some yogurt, some canned beans, a loaf of bread, and a small trampoline for the kids. I've never understood how stores like this can be so wildly unpredictable with such disparity between products, but $30 for a deer blind is a great price!

Ordered. I was wrong, it was in fact available until this morning (just sold out), and it was $219.99 minus $10 for any order over $100 from that outfitter. $209.99 shipped for this thing is so cheap it would have been downright irresponsible not to buy it. Will still be out with compound on october 1st but I'm looking forward to playing with it.